"Zheng Lianshan, a member of the military department, hanged himself, what is going on? Send a thousand horsemen to check it out. Wu Zetian said when he saw the recital from the Ministry of War.

"Yes, Your Majesty the Holy Mother." The little eunuch who was waiting on the side replied and hurriedly ran to convey the will.

Since His Majesty the Emperor led his ministers to be the Empress Dowager, the ministers have changed their names to call the Empress Dowager the Holy Mother Divine Emperor.

Wu Zetian is good at scheming, handling government affairs is exemplary, the pieces he reads every day are innumerable, and he personally handles large and small affairs, and even the students need his approval to return to their hometowns on leave, which shows his meticulousness.

Wu Zetian put down this recital, and then picked up another military document sent by the Ministry of War about Wei Zhiqi's westward expedition to Tibet, and after reading it at a glance, he couldn't help but change his face slightly, and he pondered for a long time.

Wei waited's expedition to Tibet was not smooth, first, the current Tibetan forces are strong, and the Qinling brothers can fight well, and second, the battlefield is far away in Anxi, and the logistics supply line is too long, so that the war is not going well.

"Wei Zhiwei is cowardly and incompetent, and he is deeply disappointed." Wu Zetian's phoenix eyes widened.

When Wei Zhiwei was appointed as the chief of the march of the rest of the road, Wei Fangzhen, the squire of the Fengge, proposed to send the imperial history to supervise the army, but Wu Zetian refused to send personnel to supervise the army on the grounds that the general had not granted the order of the foreign monarch, and maintained his trust in Wei Zhiwei, but he did not expect that Wei Zhihui was really useless, and he couldn't beat the Tubo people.

To be honest, Wu Zetian's vision of Wenchen is very good, Zhang Jiuling, Zhang Shuo, Yao Chong, and Song Jing, who worshiped the prime minister in later generations, were all promoted from her, not to mention Di Renjie and Zhang Cambodia, but she couldn't look at the generals, and she successively paid Wei Zhi, who was a heavy responsibility, Wu Youyi and other talents were mediocre, and they were far from being able to deal with the surrounding tiger and wolf divisions such as Tubo and Turkic and other powerful alien races.

Wei Zhiwei was born in Guanzhong Wei's Xiaoyao Mansion, and successively served as Zuo Qianniu Beishen, Lulongfu Guoyi Duwei, Lanzhou Thorn History, Liangzhou Sima, Xiaozhou Thorn History, Right Wuwei General, Liangzhou Governor, the first year of the bow to worship the prime minister, awarded the Tianguan Shangshu, Tongfeng Pavilion Luantai Sanpin, and later served as the head of the Yanran Road march to resist the Turks. The following year, he was promoted to the right minister of Wenchang, and his qualifications and prestige were the choice of the moment, and Wu Zecai had high hopes for him.

But it's useless to lose your temper, Wei is thousands of miles away in the Western Regions, and he won't be able to contact him for a while, let alone change generals in battle, and it is estimated that the daylilies are cold.

"It's really worry-free!" Wu Zetian pushed through a stack of recitals that he had read, and said with his fingers caressing his temples.

"I am a large number of people in the Tang Dynasty, there are many natural affairs, Our Lady God Emperor cares about the people, and I should also pay attention to my body, take a rest, why don't you find a massage doctor to come and massage the God Emperor?" Gonggong Yang, who was waiting next to him, persuaded.

(In the Tang Dynasty, there was a doctor of massage, and there were four masseurs and sixteen masseurs.) ）

"No need, ask Shang Shi to bring some crystal dragon and phoenix cakes, I want to finish reading these pieces." Wu Zetian commanded.

Yang Gonggong wanted to speak and stopped, so he could only go to Shangshi's place to prepare pastries for Wu Zetian in person.

"Investigate the suicide of Zheng Lianshan, a member of the military department," Li Rong looked at Yuan Xingchong and asked.

"Zheng Lianshan, a member of the military department, hanged himself at home the day before yesterday, and the Holy Mother and Emperor wanted to know what made the courtiers make such a move." Yuan Xingchong said helplessly.

"Does the Divine Emperor intend to punish Zheng Lianshan?" After Li Rong received this inexplicable task, he was confused.

"If the God Emperor wanted to attack Zheng Lianshan, he would have asked Dali Temple to come to Junchen to make a move, then we would be used, you can take someone to find out why he committed suicide, and don't worry about the rest." Yuan Xingchong said.

Wu Zetian really just wanted to find out why Zheng Lianshan committed suicide, and he had no intention of attacking the Zheng family. I have to say that her desire to control is not ordinarily strong, such a trivial matter has to be investigated to the end, it is really a waste of Qianqi's time, Zheng Lianshan may not be able to think about it, his family has not made much noise, what is the matter with the imperial court? Yuan Xingchong thought to himself.

"The last general will take someone to the Zheng family to have a look!" Li Rong bowed his hand and saluted, and after speaking, he turned around and left Yuan Xingchong's official hall.

"Dong Xuanjing took two fire soldiers to go out on an errand with me!" After returning to the camp, Li Rong handed over the camp affairs to Wei Chi Xiu, and then summoned the brigade commander Dong Xuanjing to prepare to go out.

In the process of rounding up Asili, Yang Beifeng led a brigade of about 100 soldiers to fight. After the war, the soldiers were all commended, which caused other brigades to look sideways, and they asked Li Rong to fight, Li Rong immediately made a rule, and the next time he went to battle, he had to choose the best performance in peacetime training, and Yang Beifeng's battalion performed the best last time. This time, Li Rong called Dong Xuanjing's brigade, which performed the second-best.

Of course, this time it was not to round up the murderers, Li Rong only brought two fires and twenty horsemen led by Dong Xuanjing.

The people changed into five-colored robes, took on horizontal swords, mounted horses, and ran out of the camp with a roar. is always stuck in the camp training, everyone is annoyed, not to mention that they always have to face difficult training,

Zheng Lianshan's home is in Dunhoufang in the north of Beishi, next to the water, sitting in the north and facing south, with a high wall of Zhumen, and the head of the wall is covered with green glazed tiles, reflecting the colorful light in the summer sun. Not far from the door, there are horses placed to block pedestrians, showing the nobility of the owner of the house.

On each side of the gate was a servant, dressed in sackcloth and mourning clothes, with a look on his face, without his usual arrogance. The male master of the mansion died, and their group of servants were not having a good time, and they might be dismissed by the master's family. The Zheng family is a first-class wealthy family, and the treatment enjoyed by serving as a servant here is very generous, which is not comparable to ordinary people, and it is not easy to find a job with good treatment after dismissal.

Li Rong galloped with more than a dozen horses, and when he was away from Zheng's mansion, he came down in front of the horses and stood there.

The horse is a wooden fence used to block pedestrians in front of the gate of the high-ranking official's mansion, and only those high-level lords are allowed to place the horse in front of the door.

"Inform your master that Master Li Rongli, the captain of the Thousand Cavalry, has come to the Zheng Mansion to investigate the case!" Dong Renyun came out of the crowd and stepped forward to say to the servants.

Dong Renyun stood out in the Thousand Riding Competition, so he was directly appointed as the team leader, and this time he also came out.

The horsemen stepped forward one after another, pushed the horses aside, and came directly to the gate of the Zheng Mansion.

Several servants saw it, their faces changed, looking at these generals with belts and horizontal swords, wearing five-colored robes, and murderous faces, they didn't know that this was the emperor's personal guard and thousands of soldiers, and hurriedly returned to the courtyard to tell their masters.

At the time of half a pillar of incense, the gate of Zheng's Mansion slowly opened, and out of it came a handsome and beautiful man in a brocade shirt and white clothes, with a long sword hanging on his waist, and his body exuded an atmosphere of wealth that could not be concealed.

"Zheng Guanlan has seen Captain Li in Xiaxingyang!" Shi Ran, a man in brocade, came to everyone and arched his hand.

A soft momentum came to the face, but there was a needle-like sharpness in it, which stimulated people's skin with a slight pain.

"I am on the orders of the Emperor of God to find out the matter of Zheng Lianshan, a member of the military department, hanging himself, and I hope that Brother Zheng Haihan!" Li Rong said softly.

As the sound floated out, the momentum of the people disappeared, and the surrounding spring breeze and rain became much calmer.

Zheng Guanlan smiled slightly and didn't say much, turned sideways to get out of the way, and respectfully invited everyone to enter.

A servant in front led the crowd, and Li Rong followed him into the Zheng Mansion.

Zheng Guanlan walked beside Li Rong, but his body took half a step back.

"A person from a wealthy family, the etiquette is just right, not a simple character." Li Rong said secretly in his heart.

The fight in front of the door was not an accident, I think it was intentional by Zheng Guanlan next to him.

"Captain Li is the son of Li Hui and Li Shangshu, right? The ancestor Zheng Yuanzhen once sent an envoy to the Turks with Ling Bozu, and in order to make close friends, his father Zheng Yuan also went to the house to visit Li Shangshu. Zheng Guanlan said.

"You are a member of the Zhengjiadong Forest House, no wonder the Zheng family's Drifting Snow Sword is good." Li Rong said.

"Li Gongzi's Xuanyin sword is even better, and he is so generous." Zheng Guanlan said.

The servant led the group through the cloister to the main hall in the front yard.

Zheng Guanlan led Li Rong and the others into the main hall, waved his hand to retire the servants, and ordered the servants to serve tea and entertain the thousands of knights who accompanied him.

Li Rong took Dong Xuanjing into the main hall and let the other soldiers guard outside.

"Lianshan is my uncle, after I heard that my uncle had an accident, I obeyed my father's orders and came from Xingyang to deal with the aftermath, but I didn't expect it to attract the attention of the Holy Mother and Emperor." Zheng Guanlan invited Li Rong and the two to sit down.

"His Majesty the Divine Emperor wants to find out the cause of Zheng Yuanwailang's death," Li Rong said succinctly.

"It's only my aunt here now, just ask me everything." Zheng Guanlan said, "To be honest, I also want to know the reason why my uncle hanged himself, but I haven't found anything so far." ”

"Then ask Brother Zheng to lead the way, go to the hanging scene to have a look first, there is no need to drink tea, there will be opportunities in the future." Li Rong said unceremoniously.

"Okay," Zheng Guanlan thought for a moment.

With that, Zheng Guanlan got up and took Li Rong and Dong Xuanjing to the study. The rest of the soldiers stayed in the front yard, and the servants of the Zheng family were preparing food and pastries for later use.

The Zheng family in Xingyang is one of the seven families with five surnames, and they are powerful, and Li Rong doesn't want to offend them too much.